hate to bring up a bad point but;
remember Sony and their consoles life time. (by lifetime i mean from when you first open it till it brokes, cuz tehy all broke at some point 90%+ of the time )
hell, if PS2s came with Expiration dates on it (cuz they
ALL break at some point)
mine would read:
your PlayStation2's expiration date: One year after put into use. margin of error to match the date you firstused it: about 3 days.
NOTE: SHOULD YOU attempt to repair your PS2 gaming console to evade imminent purchase of a TOTALLY NEW PS2 at no discount for something that shouldnt have broke in first place, the console's Main Board will pass out and wont load games/dvd/cd/anything anyways. Resistance is futile

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:( you know the feeling. im not jumping right away into another console (wich i do like them but havent purchased another 1.) but i have to say, for $100, GC with mario party 7 and 2 controllers is a good deal to play with friends over your house. multitap for Ps2 anyone? lol
anyways. yea, as you should have noticed this far, thats exactly what happened to me. geez i cant believe it. i DO know that it was (cuz its actually dead) part of the black sheep
SCPH 50001 series (fear them) or V9 i think. the models right before PS2 slim-line. those shiats break just for the single reason of having them!!!
i SWEAR i did nothing to the damn thing except playing socrack 2 a lot! and other games aswell (of course not as much as socom2 most times).
i agree i played socrack 2 A LOT. but then WAHT IS THE CONSOLE FOR, and WHAT DOES EVVERYONE DO WITH THEIR CONSOLE. i BET there are people who played S2 a LOT MORE than me and their PS2 were still alive after 2 years.
ONE YEAR. ONE F@QING YEAR. PS2 GREETS me with DREs (Disk Read Errors) to "celebrate" its 1st Anniversary. ooooooh what a nice little detail , huh? wanna make it even better? only way to fix it: New lens (sp?). *checks imaginary "PS2 expiration date note"* and what did the PS2 expiration date note say if i tried to fix what shouldnt have broke to avoid purchase???? DAMN RIGHT!. At about first days of november (after experiencing skips, and jerky video playbacks) shyat finnally broke for once and for all (sp?).
is that what consoles are supposed to last? are consoles even supossed to last less that the console's lifespan(sp?) ? i still got my Nintendo 64 up an running these days. (since 1997 i think)
ive read TONS of people that had same problem. AN AWFUL LOT RIGHT AFTER A YEAR, EXACTLY AS ME. (worst case: 1 - 3 months) and most of the faulty that last (isnt faulty and last what they call an oxymoron?) longer that normal die at about 2 years.
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